The streambed, already loaded, piled even higher with dry ravel.
The grass growing alongside the streambed was thick and lush.
Scrub oak and juniper choked a streambed below.
Which is how I came to be hiking up that streambed with Debopam in October.
After about an hour and a half of walking, the streambed suddenly disappeared.
During the reproductive season, male sticklebacks become territorial and defend a portion of the streambed against other intruding stickleback males.
The ruins of old homes strafed by Soviet gunships crowd a gravel streambed that is dry most of the year but runs swiftly with snowmelt come spring.
Forty feet below, the water thundered into a shallow pool, then slipped down a stair-step streambed to another, much larger pool below.
A couple of weeks earlier, the villagers erected barricades in the streambed to try to prevent the nomads from returning after their summer in the mountains.
This aquatic ballet also plays on the silty streambed below, where the insects' dancing shadows are visible through the still water.
Site C: Sandy streambed, gentle bank slope, open bank vegetation.
